The quick model
- Tobias Santelmann chosen to play Harry Gap within the Netflix sequence based mostly on Jo Nesbø’s e book “Marekors”
- Pia Tjelta and the Swedish Joel Kinnaman will play Rakel Fauke and Tom Waaler within the sequence
- The sequence is being filmed in Oslo this week, and can premiere in 2026
Sea view
– It’s nearly unusual. Tobias was the primary identify we considered, says Jo Nesbø to VG.
– It was nearly too apparent. So we determined to take the complete spherical – and see what the alternatives had been right here.
On Tuesday morning, Harry Gap got here driving to his hometown: Restaurant Schrøder in Oslo – and Netflix was blocked from the road with a big safety presence.
Jo Nesbø, Joel Kinnaman, Pia Tjelta, Tobias Santelmann and Øystein Karlsen. Photograph: Helge Mikalsen / VG
Netflix and Jo Nesbø tried to maintain the information about the primary roles a secret, nevertheless it broke within the US The Hollywood Reporter late Monday evening.
Along with Tobias Santelmann as Harry Gap, it is usually clear who will play the girl in Harry Gap’s life, Rakel, and the corrupt colleague Tom Waaler: Pia Tjelta and Swedish Joel Kinnaman.
– It’s totally good, it is good to have the ability to say that, says Tobias Santelmann in regards to the information on Tuesday morning.
He’s ready by studying books and studying scripts.
Pia Tjelta had no doubts that she needed the position of Rakel Fauke:
– It was a no brainer. I did not go for it, so to talk. I am fairly a fan of blood. I’ve a really sturdy relationship with the Harry Gap books, she says.
The Swede Joel Kinnaman, identified amongst different issues from “Snabba money”, had not learn the Harry Gap books earlier than.
– I’m studying them now, and I really like them, he says to VG.
– I am actually wanting ahead to this. It is a actually enjoyable and difficult position, and the entire script is well-crafted, well-made – and extremely satisfying, says Kinnaman.
It was in March of this yr that the information got here that Jo Nesbø’s crime hero Harry Gap will get a brand new life on the display screen when Netflix makes a giant guess on a TV sequence based mostly on the e book “Marekors”.
Final week, VG went looking for Harry – and it was the hunt that led us right here.
And Tobias Santelmann of Norway will play Harry.
Jo Nesbø tells VG that they’ve an extended and thorough course of behind them.
– We now have turned over the most important stones. We needed to be completely certain. Many skilled folks say they’ve by no means been concerned in a decision process as thorough and complete as ours.
However in the long run they ended up again to sq. one: The primary identify they got here up with.
– We introduced in three others specifically who had been excellent, however we went all the best way round and again once more: It needs to be Tobias.
And Santelmann should have delivered a really spectacular check.
– He acquired the position as a result of he is an effective actor. Simply. Right here now we have an actor who reveals a really particular understanding of the character, Nesbø says and explains:
– If he performs a personality trait that may be a seven on a scale from 1 to 10 – and we ask him to show it as much as an eight – he delivers an eight. Not 9 or ten. That could be very troublesome, and never many individuals can do it.
Nesbø says that it was not likely that essential that the actor needed to bodily resemble Harry Gap.
– We had been extra involved that he was going to be somebody who radiated the identical humor weltschmerz and gallows. That mixture of humor and darkness that’s so typical of Harry.
– However on the identical time, there are such a lot of readers who’ve Harry Ballot of their internal eye, and they need to be allowed to maintain that Harry Ballot. And I feel they’re doing that now, says Nesbø.
– What about your internal picture of Harry?
– I do not know if I’ve a transparent image, I’ve seen extra out of the nook of my eye. I’ve a fluid picture of Harry, says Nesbø.
The e book “Marekors” begins with Harry Gap coming to himself in his personal residence – fully drunk. And deserted by her boyfriend.
On the identical time, small black lumps start to circulate by means of the ground in one other residence – in Oslo hit by a warmth wave.
That is additionally the place the TV sequence begins – and we observe Harry who will get a brand new mission when a girl is discovered murdered together with her index finger minimize off. However the one he has to work with is Tom Waaler, the policeman Harry is aware of is behind the homicide of a colleague.
The sequence goes by the working title “Harry Gap” – and is a Scandinavian drama sequence that takes place in and round Oslo. Filming begins in Oslo already this week and will likely be proven for the primary time in 2026.
– The plan is to create an Oslo that will likely be barely completely different from the actual Oslo. 90 % practical and 10 % journey.
– I think about a type of Gotham Metropolis model of Oslo, Jo Nesbø instructed VG earlier this spring.
He emphasizes that they’ve a giant job forward of them:
– The job begins in two days and can final for greater than 100 days. Collectively we are going to design this character, and we are going to attempt to create a TV sequence model of Harry Gap that’s near Harry Gap from the books, however on the identical time additionally has a number of the character that the actor has.
He himself is near the mission: He’s the so-called showrunner for the TV sequence and has written the script himself.
– If it goes flawed this time, I’ve nobody guilty, Nesbø instructed VG when the information was launched.
Øystein Karlsen, who had nice success with “Exit” amongst different issues, will direct the TV sequence.
He says the residents of Oslo will discover the recording.
– There are 108 days and 178 venues from once we begin on Thursday. It will likely be a touring circus.
The British firm Working Title is the producer. This is similar firm that produced the movie “Snømannen”, which was fully killed by the critics within the autumn of 2017.
However there isn’t a motive to be suspicious of that motive, in response to Nesbø:
– No, fairly the alternative. It says one thing that the “Snowman” producer is “hanging in there”. They continued to consider in Harry all these years – and so they have plenty of religion in us, Nesbø instructed VG when the TV sequence grew to become identified.